The Pigeon House – Hotels, Barracks and Power Stations

The Pigeon House – Hotels, Barracks and Power Stations

A sketch of the Pigeonhouse Harbour’s history as Dublin’s main packet‑boat station, later barracks and power‑station site, taking in the Green Patch—once a strategic tidal islet and work‑yard for the South Wall— and the famous chimenys and the modern Poolbeg port...
The Poolbeg Peninsula, Dublin

The Poolbeg Peninsula, Dublin

Tracing the Ringsend glassworks’ rise under hospitals-sweepstake backers, its sale and closure under Paul Coulson, speculative boom‑time land deals and Becbay’s collapse, and today’s Poolbeg West SDZ plan for 3,500 homes on the remediated port peninsula. Become a...
Captain William Bligh (1754–1817)

Captain William Bligh (1754–1817)

In 1800–01, Captain Bligh surveyed Dublin Harbour, advised on raising the South Wall seaward section, and crucially recommended construction of the North Bull Wall, whose eventual completion led to the creation of Bull Island. Become a member of Turtle’s History...
Bindon Blood Stoney (1828–1909) – The Father of Irish Concrete

Bindon Blood Stoney (1828–1909) – The Father of Irish Concrete

  See here for more stories of Dublin’s Docklands   *****    Walking the Docklands today, many newcomers find themselves looking twice at the name of a street called ‘BLOOD STONEY ROAD’. It all sounds rather grim. However, the road is in fact dedicated to one of the...